House
Apr 1, 2016

To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege.

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State Secrets Protection Act This bill declares that the government has a privilege to refuse to give information and to prevent any person from giving information in civil actions in federal or state courts only if the government shows that public disclosure of the information that the government seeks to protect would be reasonably likely to cause significant harm to the...

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Introduced(3/16/16)
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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Mr. Nadler

House (D) New York – 12

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Apr 1, 2016